Professor Toby James

@tobysjames.bsky.social 🔸 Prof of Politics & Policy @Politics_UEA🔸Democracy, elections, policy🔸Co-Director @ElectIntegrity🔸Eds @PolicyStudiesTF🔸(he/him)

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📢What is the relationship between democracy, public administration and democratic backsliding?

In this new article, I argue that the answer depends on the concept of democracy that is used....

📖Read free:
https://t.co/pszhT4ZCWf

🌎Special issue page:
https://t.co/YCEbRLuwpZ

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Call for papers

The Governance of Football: Policy, Politics and Possibilities

Special Issue @PolicyStudiesTF

https://t.co/PCpgSXl6CI #worldcup2026 #footballgovernance #fifaworldcup #fifa

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Registration is open for the Annual Virtual Elections Conference – EIP2026!
🗓️ July 6–9, 2026
Online | Free to attend
Join a global community exploring elections through the lenses of contestation, deliberation, participation, and electoral justice
https://t.co/NvdQWT3eQr

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@AaronChalfin @alicekrozer When you learn about the world, you change it.

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Just as they are for the USA:

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What was the quality of elections in Venezuela?

The answers are on the Electoral Integrity Project website:

https://t.co/XtGs4GOyfn

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Some criteria for assessing political leaders....

In the recently revised books on political leadership, we emphasise how good leadership needs to be conducted within the boundaries of democracy...

https://t.co/f11DKzxDKk

[UEA Politics & International Relations Department @Politics_UEA]

https://t.co/hSqZTFWiZI
What makes a great British leader? Can Starmer survive? Farage for No.10? Tory comeback? Packed room + brilliant Q&A with @TobySJames , @ProfTimBale , @EmmanuelleAvril , @PatrickDiamond1 & Professor Charles Clarke. Watch it! 👇 #UKPolitics #Leadership

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By which benchmarks should we assess political leaders? How are Starmer, Badenoch and Farage performing, and why?

Watch our expert book launch from this week, including: Charles Clarke, Tim Bale, Patrick Diamond and Emmanuel Avril

https://t.co/gGixDbKEcO

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The State of Political Leadership in Britain

Join us for this tomorrow!

Free and open to all, online and in person.

https://t.co/C8UWdQ5YCV

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Policy and practice: exploring the potentials of social practice theory for policy studies

Daniel Polman, Jeroen Candel and Mary Greene, Wageningen University Netherlands

https://t.co/7beZnBC8Bi

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Means-Tested welfare policies and the quiet fear of poverty amongst older people: lessons from the UK

by Kingsley Purdam & Jill Ebrey, University of Manchester

https://t.co/AOQBsxpYda

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Crisis of political leadership? What crisis?

Join us on Tuesday!

https://t.co/zDzKhmwR11

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The Canadian Parliament is considering whether the overseas voting system supports Canadian democracy.

I drew from UK-based studies to give evidence about whether proxy voting may help....

https://t.co/xh5o1Q0z5b

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The State of Political Leadership in Britain

Roundtable with Charles Clarke, Tim Bale, Emmanuelle Avril and Patrick Diamond

Tuesday 25th November 1pm-2.30pm

The registration link is: https://t.co/zDzKhmwjbt. We will send a join link 24 hours before the event

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Out now!

Merit and impartiality in public administration: the effect of democratic backsliding through participation and contestation

by David Ibañez and Ricardo A. Bello-Gómez (Rutgers University, USA)

https://t.co/0WZww7Pj6x

Special issue: https://t.co/zPKksvENVB

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Read 'Electoral Integrity Research Methodology here:

https://t.co/LU3Th1IUI4

And look out for more chapters in the Handbook!

The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity | Oxford Academic

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How do different scholars do research on electoral integrity? How should they?

Prior to making a decision about the choice of methods (e.g. surveys, interviews…) there is a decisions about *methodology*

New chapter in the OUP Handbook:
https://t.co/P72hC0tCtf

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I profile three rival (but sometimes overlapping) approaches: behaviouralism, historiography and critical sociology.

I argue that:
- approach taken can lead to very different types of study.
- recognition of the different pathways would greatly benefit research and policy

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Universal suffrage is often said to be a defining feature of democracy, but is not the reality for many elections around the world.

In this new piece, we map the arguments for enfranchising all residents and the number of unenfranchised adults in the UK.

https://t.co/2Pj43tR8hc

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EIP’s 2026 Fellowship Program Applications are now open!

For more information on the fellowships and application process, please visit: https://t.co/hUKqyLv8IF